wellactually

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Not a journalist, not anyone important, and collector of copious random factoids. Avid consumer of news & politics.
I have 2 teenagers, so I say a lot of, “Well…actually” to rolling eyeballs.

Off the rails...

“I will fight for the direct election of school principals by parents so that if you have a lousy principal, and you got some beauties out, but if you have a bad principal who is not getting the job done the parents will under the Trump administration be allowed to vote to fire that principal,” Trump said to Moms For Liberty.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?529023-102/donald-trump-speaks-moms-liberty-convention

Donald Trump Speaks at Moms for Liberty Convention

2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at a gathering in Philadelphia hosted by Moms for Liberty, a conservative parents' rights group. The former president talked about a variety of topics, including his opposition to transgender athletes competing in women's sports and a proposal to encourage the public election of school principals.

C-SPAN.org
Trump 2024 campaign aide who viewed classified docs linked to Chinese lobbying firm: report - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2662051626/
Trump 2024 campaign aide who  viewed classified docs linked to Chinese lobbying firm: report

A top Donald Trump 2024 campaign advisor who prosecutors allege viewed classified documents is employed by a firm with links to China that poses a potential national security threat and enables human rights abuses, The New York Post reports. Susan Wiles serves as co-chair of Mercury Public Affairs, ...

Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism

Recommended read: #Wagner uprising is reckoning for #Putin ’s rule
https://wapo.st/44Arlh9
By the ever excellent Catherine Belton and Robyn Dixon
No paywall

'a reckoning for a presidency that till now has thrived on Putin’s ability to divide and rule by pitting rival groups against each other and serving as the ultimate arbiter among feuding elites'

Wagner uprising is reckoning for Putin’s rule

The aborted mutiny by Wagner chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin is the gravest challenge to Vladimir Putin's 23-year reign.

The Washington Post
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you take a man on a luxury fishing vacation, you can own the US Supreme Court.

Ok, so I made the mistake of trying to fact-check Rudy.

I tried to find this "dead" woman.

No one knows who she is. Her "husband," Giuliani references died in 2011. That's 3 years before Hunter Biden was added to the Burisma board

#News #politics #biden

https://www.rawstory.com/biden-burisma-whistleblower-giuliani/

Rudy Giuliani says key Biden whistleblower no one has ever heard of has died

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have claimed that they saw an FBI document that reports a bribery and money laundering scheme by President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The document is called an FD-1023 form and it's what agents use when they get a tip from the public about a ...

Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism

The largest group of House Republicans just released a budget that calls for massive tax cuts for the super-rich and raising the Social Security retirement age, a benefit cut for millions of Americans.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-budget-destroy-social-security?fbclid=IwAR3sacObpIs1bACJTUTY3ud5ovNzZZcOeYtvpQNzGY8KUMrMg-oCXlKWhk4

House GOP Panel Releases Budget That Would 'Destroy Social Security as We Know It'

"The largest group of House Republicans just released a budget that calls for massive tax cuts for the super-rich and raising the Social Security retirement age, a benefit cut for millions of Americans."

Common Dreams
NEW: Records we obtained, reported on by Zach Everson of Forbes, reveal that the DOD spent nearly $1 million at properties owned by former President Donald Trump between July 2017 and November 2019, far exceeding previously reported expense totals.
https://www.americanoversight.org/defense-department-spent-nearly-1-million-at-trump-properties-from-july-2017-to-november-2019-records-obtained-by-american-oversight-reveal
Defense Department Spent Nearly $1 Million at Trump Properties from July 2017 to November 2019, Records Obtained by American Oversight Reveal - American Oversight

Records obtained by American Oversight show that the Pentagon spent at least $974,000 at Trump-owned properties between July 2017 and November 2019, far exceeding previously reported expense totals.

American Oversight
Harlan Crow gave $100,000 to "No Labels' What further proof do we need that No Labels is a scam to divide the Presidential vote to enable Trump back into the White House with 40% of the vote in a divided contest because he cannot get to 50%. #politics #uspol
https://newrepublic.com/article/172059/no-labels-took-100000-clarence-thomas-buddy-harlan-crow
No Labels Took More Than $100,000 From Clarence Thomas Buddy Harlan Crow

The “nonpartisan” group also relied on Crow—whom it dubbed one of its “whales”—to reel in nearly two dozen other donors from 2019 to 2021.

The New Republic
Here's an interesting fact: in the first version of the Stanford-Binet IQ test, women on average did better than men. Since women could not be more intelligent than men, they removed questions women did better on, and replaced them with ones men did better on, until the results came out right. (Hacking, /The Social Construction of What?/, p. 173.)

I feel this should be shared a lot more 🙂

"NY Times: House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden
After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct."

https://archive.is/20230510235518/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/us/politics/hunter-biden-house-republicans-report.html

#Biden #GOP #USPol #Politics #NYT #News #But #Whatabout #HunterBidensLaptop